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“You can do no better than attend a De Bono seminar.” – Tom Peters

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“De Bono’s course should be the essential curriculum for the human race.” – Alex Kroll

Who is Edward de Bono?

“Dr de Bono’s innovative thinking methods have been tried and tested… I saw the system in action at an impasse during a seminar of Nobel laureates. When a Random Word (one of de Bono’s thinking tools) was injected into the discussion, the problem was quickly resolved.”

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics

Dr Edward de Bono MA. DPhil (Oxford), PhD (Cambridge), MD (Malta) is regarded as the leading authority worldwide in the field of creative and conceptual thinking. He was a Rhodes Scholar and had held faculty appointments at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Harvard. His background in medicine and psychology has been a critical enabling factor in his ability to treat the human brain as a biological information system.
In the book The Mechanism of Mind (Viking Penguin 1969), Dr de Bono first described how the nerve networks in the brain behave as a self-organising system. It is from this serious base that he has designed his methodologies and tools for thinking. Dr de Bono is the inventor of the Six Thinking Hats®, Lateral Thinking™, Power of Perception™ methods and the creative thinking technique “po”. He is also the designer of the CoRT Thinking Programme for schools, which is the most widely used programme internationally for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject.
He is the author of more than 70 books with translations in more than 40 languages. He has also made a 10-part TV series for the BBC called ‘de Bono’s Course in Thinking’ and a 13-part series ‘The Greatest Thinkers’ (sponsored by IBM and Encyclopaedia Britannica). Dr de Bono is the originator of the term ‘lateral thinking’ which is now officially recognised in the Oxford English Dictionary. He also wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.

“In Lateral Thinking this haphazard way of gaining insight is replaced by a deliberate method that, in a prescribed and systematic way, solves the problems”
Ivar Giaever
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics

“It is reasonable to conclude that CoRT (one of de Bono’s thinking programs) has considerable impact on thinking…
CoRT is straightforward, ingenious, and quite easy to apply. Intelligence can be taught by CoRT.”
David Perkins
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Edward de Bono Training Pte Ltd is the official Regional Centre overseeing the promotion and conduct of Dr. Edward de Bono’s Thinking Methods in the ASEAN region including Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. We are the exclusive Distributor for Dr. de Bono’s Thinking Methods in the region.

Dr Edward de Bono has defined THINKING as “THE OPERATING SKILL WITH WHICH INTELLIGENCE ACTS UPON EXPERIENCE”.
If IQ is the innate horsepower of a car and KNOWLEDGE is the fuel, then THINKING SKILL can be equated with driving skill. Only a skilful driver can make optimum use of a car’s potential. Because of this realisation, many schools for the exceptionally gifted are now using Dr de Bono’s Thinking programs in a deliberate attempt to avoid the “intelligence trap” which occurs when a high IQ is not accompanied by effective thinking skills.
Dr de Bono believes that good thinking does not occur naturally. He believes there is a need to teach thinking. One should realise that it is never too early to be taught this most fundamental of human skills.
The increasingly complicated future will undoubtedly challenge anyone to come up with clear and constructive thinking: making decisions, making choices, taking initiatives and being creative.
Dr Edward de Bono authored the CoRT (Cognitive Research Trust) thinking programme which is the most widely used programme internationally for the direct teaching of thinking in schools. His methods are now widely used in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Argentina, U.K., Italy, United Arab Emirates, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, The Baltic States, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, China, U.S.A, Russia etc. It is compulsory in all schools in Venezuela. In Malta, there is a model showcase for the de Bono Thinking Tools within the National Education Department.
In the area of education, he has been invited to address the OECD, the Education Commission of the States, International Council for Gifted Education, ASCD (Association of Supervisors and Curriculum Designers, USA), National Council of Gifted Education (USA) and the education ministries of various countries.
Dr de Bono is regularly called upon to address major international conventions. In recognition of his work, the European Creativity Association requested the official naming Committee of the International Astronomical Union (Massachusetts) to name a planet after him and so DE73 became Edebono.
In 1991, Dr de Bono arranged for the incorporation of Advanced Practical Thinking Training, Inc.® to publish his training materials and to certify instructors to teach his thinking methods. The APTT® network now spans over 30 countries. In Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macau, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Taiwan, Dr de Bono is officially represented by Thinking Management Techniques Pte Ltd. Its associate company, Edward de Bono Training Pte Ltd, is the sole distributor of legal de Bono training materials for the region.
In 2013, Edward de Bono transferred the rights to his methods and materials to De Bono Global which is now entrusted with perpetuating the work of the guru.

Corporate Programs

At Edward de Bono Training, we help executives and organisation to maximise their thinking potential through 5 different programs.